republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-008.md

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Bill	Adjust Necessary Document Program	Beginning on July 1, 2027, the act adjusts aspects of the necessary document program (program) administered by the office of health equity (office) in the department of public health and environment, which program assists certain populations of Colorado residents with paying the fees to acquire necessary documents related to an individual's identity, citizenship, or other vital statistics. The act clarifies that an individual who is eligible under the program may obtain necessary documents without charge at participating division of motor vehicles locations, participating vital statistics offices, or participating mobile units or from authorized representatives that offer driver's licenses, identification card services, or vital statistics certificates and reports.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-008	Colorado SB 25-008 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Meg Froelich Nick Hinrichsen	10	15	4	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/060c4029-d552-44f3-9c51-d3a4525f4e4b	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-008	041011324af39c6c1658fb739a9b5a3756eb3584ccf9db1d635860539e399be5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-008 (2025A) — Adjust Necessary Document Program

Beginning on July 1, 2027, the act adjusts aspects of the necessary document program (program) administered by the office of health equity (office) in the department of public health and environment, which program assists certain populations of Colorado residents with paying the fees to acquire necessary documents related to an individual's identity, citizenship, or other vital statistics. The act clarifies that an individual who is eligible under the program may obtain necessary documents without charge at participating division of motor vehicles locations, participating vital statistics offices, or participating mobile units or from authorized representatives that offer driver's licenses, identification card services, or vital statistics certificates and reports.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/17/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 21–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government introduction
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/060c4029-d552-44f3-9c51-d3a4525f4e4b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).